English Japanese Raisin tree, Coral
tree.
Folk Sikkaa.
Action Fruit—diuretic; relieves intoxication due to wine.
The leaves and root bark gave tnterpene saponins. Root bark also gave peptide alkaloids.
The fruit extract contains potassium nitrate and potassium malate and is strongly diuretic. The seeds contain beta-carboline alkaloid, perlolyrine. A toothpaste, containing extracts of the fruits and seeds as one of the ingredients, has been patented for controlling dental caries (in Japan).
Hugonia mystax Linn.
Family Linaceae.
Habitat Konkan and North Kanara, throughout dry forests of Tamil Nadu.
Folk Kaakibeeraa, Kansamaara. Siddha/Tamil Agori. Motirakkanni. Action Root—anti-inflammatory,
febrifuge; disperses swellings.
Humulus lupulus Linn.
Family Cannabinaceae.
Habitat Native to Europe and
Asia. Conditions for its successful cultivation are reported to exist in
Kashmir and parts of Himachal Pradesh.
English Hops.
Unani Hashish-ut-Dinaar.
Action Flowers—sedative, hypnotic, nervine tonic, diuretic, spasmolytic on smooth muscle, analgesic, astringent. Used for nervous diseases, intestinal cramps, menopause, insomnia, neuralgia and nervous diarrhoea. Also as a tonic in stomach and liver affections. As a blood cleanser, the root is used like sarsaparilla.
Key application In mood disturbances, such as restlessness and anxiety, sleep disturbances. (German Commission E. ESCOP.)
The British Herbal Compendium and The British Herbal Pharmacopoeia reported herb’s action as sedative, soporific, spasmolytic and aromatic bitter, and indicated its use for excitability, restlessness, disorders of sleep and lack of appetite.
Hop cones consist of the whole dried female inflorescences of Humulus lupulus.
Hop contains bitter principles— lupulin containing humulon, lupulon and valerianic acid; volatile oil (0.3— 1.0%) including humulene; flavonoids including xanthohumole; polyphenolic tannins, asparagin,
